I’m getting to the end of my internship and it’s a little sad because I’ve been having such a good experience with my supervisors. The work has been fun, exciting, and a great practice for what I see myself doing in the future. This week, I worked on a few different things for my supervisors. They received a horse to help with their hosting for the Special Olympics training, who’s name is Moonlight. I designed a post announcing Moonlight’s arrival and a little bit of his backstory and personality. Being as his name is Moonlight, I designed the post in a way where it’s like Moonlight is casting an actual beam of moonlight. Along with this, I’ve been sketching ideas for a new logo for them and creating some digitally. I’m still working on it because I really want to encapsulate the main mission of this organization in their logo, and we all think their current logo doesn’t truly hit the nail on the head. I’m hoping to create something they love, even if it takes me working on it after the internship is over.
I also continued working on a volunteer advertisement post to put on their socials and Facebook groups for more exposure. Besides these, I took about 2 hours to complete a non-profit marketing workshop online to help my knowledge on strategies and how these things function. I love this non-profit and what they do, so I think that is why my drive for success with them is so high. I’ve been learning a lot on different websites/what they use for their newsletters, website management, etc. It was my first time using GoDaddy and Meta. I also got practice simple networking; I’m very introverted so it tends to be hard for me to go out of my way to interact with others outside of a forced setting. I am planning on continuing this by taking an opportunity to go up during the Summer and in October to help be a volunteer for them. Networking is such an important aspect in this industry, so I want to make sure I push my boundaries a little bit to help myself grow in that area.
With all the tasks given and deadline changes, I believe I managed my time well during the course of the internship. Other than planning my weekly tasks, I didn’t really have to think about my interactions with my supervisors; Working with them just felt so easy. The weekly meetings were always very helpful and productive, along with emailing throughout the week. They were always considerate of all the other things I have going on, being 4 classes and a part-time retail job. Even with this, I never want to give excuses, so I pushed myself to really use all the time I had. I would bring my laptop and sketchbooks with me to work and continue working on what I could during my lunch breaks there. I’m exhausted, but the feeling of not being able to complete something is worth than the fatigue.
Being in a remote internship for the semester, Zoom meetings and emails were the main sources of communication for us. One of the main things I had to do was schedule emails to send during office hours, as mentioned in “The Remote Worker’s Guide to Office Etiquette.” Working remotely with so many other priorities, the time I needed to be scheduled to work my 12 hours during the work were sometimes the complete opposite from from supervisors. Although one of my supervisors typically liked to work late and the other being an early bird, I usually went with scheduling my emails to send sometime during the morning hours, giving both a chance to get to it without possibly interrupting their sleep.
